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RSS contexts may get lost from a device, in various extreme circumstances. Specifically if the firmware leaks resources and resets, or crashes and either recovers in partially working state or the crash causes a different FW version to run - creating the context again may fail. Drivers should do their absolute best to prevent this from happening. When it does, however, telling user that a context exists, when it can't possibly be used any more is counter productive. Add a helper for drivers to discard contexts. Print an error, in the future netlink notification will also be sent. More robust approaches were proposed, like keeping the contexts but marking them as "dead" (but possibly resurrected by next reset). That may be better but it's unclear at this stage whether the effort is worth the benefits. Reviewed-by: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240711220713.283778-2-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.